[JohnWill]

Works for me as well.

[eddie32818]

Originally Posted by TerryNet

Yes, yes, and yes. Using the D-Link as wireless access point only and the Embarq as the only router is probably your best bet. Hopefully the port forwarding on that will go smoothly and you will soon report access from home.

Well I was able to configure the Dir-615 in Wireless Access Point and also to set my port-forwarding in the EQ-660 router. For the port-forwarding, I am trying to use 2 ports: 3389 and another one I specified in the xx,xxxx range, which the Host is set to listen, as configured in IIS services in the Host machine.

I beleive I have correctly configured for static IP in the Host machince via TCP/IP properties and thus eleminating automatic configurations of IP and DNS server. Curious -- I noted that the Default Gateway, DHCP server, and DNS server were all the same when checked IPCongig /all. I expected the DNS and DHCP servers to be different. Maybe the correct info is displayed in my 660 or maybe I need to call my ISP for this info. The host is still connecting to the Internet fine, with no problems.



Unfortunately, I still cannot get connected! (I think I for forgot to power-cycle the EQ-660 router to make sure the new settings "take" before I left the office -- wife called me to go meet up at the "Sweet Tomatoes" and I got sidetracked I guess )

Also, do you think I have to create Trust rules for my "client's external IP" in NIS 2009 in order to get a Remote Desktop Connection? Or am I fine with making sure that Remote Desktop program (mstsc.exe) is added and is set to AUTO in NIS2009 program trust control?

Still hoping to get this fixed -- and I am grateful for all your help.

Ed

[JohnWill]

I suspect that you will indeed have to alter the NIS 2009 configuration. My advice is to disable it totally for a test, then enable it after you get it working.

As far as trusting anything Norton, I'm afraid they've burned up that trust with a number of their previous versions, it'll take a while before I trust them again.

[eddie32818]

Hello John,

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try disabling NIS2009 smart firewall when I get back in the office to test the RDC.

Ed

[eddie32818]

No luck after disabling NIS2009 and power-cycling the router. (Enabled Windows Firewall with "no exceptions" unticked and made sure that RDC and RDWC are checked)

Port checker tool from portforward.com says "cannot open port" for UDP/3389 and UDP/XX,XXXX. Then it reports "Some other application has it locked..." for TCP/3389 and TCP/XX,XXXX.

Could there be another step that I forgot in the Port Forwarding of Router setup? Maybe NAT rules?

[JohnWill]

That sounds like that port is forwarded to a different IP address than your computer.

[eddie32818]

I will double check this - I am pretty sure it is the Host's IP assigned by the EQ-660 over the LAN .

Maybe I'm losing my mind over this, but does it need to be the external IP that gets the port forwarding in that router/modem/combo?

[TerryNet]

but does it need to be the external IP that gets the port forwarding in that router/modem/combo?

No. A message comes into the router on port 3389 from the outside world (your home in this case). The router cannot handle it. To where should it be forwarded? Answer--the (private, LAN) IP address of a computer that is ready to deal with it.

[JohnWill]

I can't believe the router will even let you enter a public IP address in the port forwarding tables!

[eddie32818]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

I can't believe the router will even let you enter a public IP address in the port forwarding tables!

Here is what I see by way of screenshots from portforward.com:


http://portforward.com/english/route...te_Desktop.htm

In the screenshot the IP information field is blank, but I assumed that you were supposed to enter a valid local IP on the LAN. Yes, it allows me to enter the LAN IP of the Host machine at the office. Do you think it would be OK to have port 3389 open And port xx,xxxx open for the same Host's IP? Because I have the Host machine "listening" to port xx,xxx for the Remote Web Connection and I have been trying both RDC and the RDWC with the IP(external):XX,XXXX and Http://IP(external):XX,XXXX/tsweb/ respectively for the two different connection methods trying to logon from my home to my office.

Maybe I've been trying to do to many things at once...Perhaps I should start over and rethink what the heck I've been trying to do.

I have been trying to follow this guide for RDWC:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...6.mspx?pf=true

And this guide for RDC:

http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jak...ction_rdc.html

Thank you for having some patience with me and I'd really appreciate it you could let me know If these procedures are sound. Later, I think I will definately have to deal with the security side of these connections, but one thing at time.

[JohnWill]

The guide looks fine to me, that should work.